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Missing 12-year-old NC girl believed to be traveling with sex offender in Ga. or Fla.

Likely headed south in 1998 Chrysler Sebring

Twelve-year-old Abigale Lefever (L) is missing and believed to be traveling with child sex offender Timothy Newman (R) through Georgia and Florida.

A 12-year-old girl who mysteriously disappeared from her North Carolina home late Sunday is now believed to be being held captive by a registered sex offender and traveling south through Georgia and Florida.

An Amber Alert has been issued for Abigale Lefevers, of Cataret County. Lefevers has not been seen since her parents put her to bed Sunday night.

Investigators now believe Lefevers is being held captive by Timothy Newman, 38, and has traveled south through Georgia into Florida. Debit card records have placed Newman in Jacksonville, Fl. at 12:43 a.m. Monday.

Newman, an acquainance of Lefevers' family, is on the sex registry because of two convictions that he engaged in a sex offense with a 14 year old girl in Stokes County, N.C.

Anyone with information regarding the wherabouts of Lefevers, Newman or Newman's red 1998 Chrysler Sebring, license plate number AKT6534, should Carteret County Sheriff Department at 252-504-4800, or call 911.